LONG TERM GOAL Adopt 21 st century teaching approaches to enhance students’ language and comprehending skills.

SHORT-TERM GOALS By the end of the session the students will be able to:  Better understanding between students and teachers.  Evaluate students’ language proficiency by giving them Monthly and class test.  To make them aware of the classical writing in the nineteenth century.  Highlight the key facts and main characters through power point presentation.

USE OF BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND 21 st CENTURY APPROACHES IN THE TOPIC

TIMELINE February-May 2012 CREATIVE WRITING  Report writing  Writing an opinion  Imaginative composition  Descriptive accounts  Article writing  Paragraph Writing  Travel writing COMPREHENSION  Toxic Time Bomb  A Persian Childhood  A Changing Life  Holiday Brochures  The land of ice & fire  The Time machine GRAMMAR Phrasal verbs  Prefixes  Idioms and Expressions  Homophones  Future Time Literature The Rain Horse  My greatest ambition  Sand piper  At hiruharama

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND TASKS  Students will be encourage to adopt 21 st century learning aids.  I will conduct worksheets and encourage them to participate in group discussions.  Students will be emphasized to follow the iterative cycle i.e. plan, do, review and share to ensure a better end product.  Students will be shown a movie via YouTube in order to provoke higher order thinking.

SOLUTIONS TO ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES PROBLEMS  Few students are interested in visiting the olcsn website  Some students complain that they are unable to open the password through their ID.  Students and parents will notice that grammar is not being focused in the new session. SOLUTIONS  Those worksheets should be marked for the term marks.  As the information or worksheet is the same for all the students, they can access the site through a friend’s password.  More emphasis will be laid on comprehension and creative writing.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Application I will develop interpersonal and collaborative skills during creative writing sessions and brain storming for literature based analytical questions Questioning skills Monitoring and observing skill Encouraging Skill Random grouping of students will be done to inculcate team spirit and social ethics, along with accomplishing the learning goals I will provide opportunities to play word games to enhance their word power Observing skillsI will ask them to play online scrabble and play word games in groups like ‘small crosswords, jumble or target games’ I will focus on correct usage of grammar. Listening & speaking skills Direction Skills Questioning skills Thorough explanation and reinforcement worksheets. I’ll brainstorm the main theme of the passage Students will be asked to comprehend in their own words. Intervening skills Monitor questioning skills I will encourage students for their response to the given questions.

RESOURCES Other teacher who teaches same grades and subject Reference books, curriculum dictionary htp://youtube.com Word processing, multimedia and spreadsheets application.

Acknowledgment From the depth of my heart I would like to thank my family, heads, management, INTEL master trainers and my colleagues for the continuous support and guidelines throughout the period.

Conclusion By implementing my newly acquired teaching styles students will be empowered and will appreciate and gain better knowledge at English